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Weissman, Terri Bushnick, Melissa J. 2010-05-19T18:41:23Z 2010-05-19T18:41:23Z 2010-05-19T18:41:23Z 2010-5 Following the fall of the Berlin Wall, American-Jewish artist Shimon Attie traveled to the former Jewish quarter of Berlin and wondered “Where are all the missing people?” With this question in mind, Attie embarked on a two year project that involved converting black and white archival photographs of pre-war Jewish life in Berlin into slides and projecting them onto the sites they were originally taken. During the course of the one or two day installation, Attie would photograph the projection. These photographs would become The Writing on the Wall series, in which Attie sought to reveal not what was but instead what was lost, using photography to evoke both absence and memory. As a work enacted in public space, Attie sought to reinhabit both the neighborhood and the minds of those who see his work with the memory of Berlin’s forgotten Jewish community, creating an active, experiential form of memory work. Through using the medium of photography in different ways, Attie thus creates a space in which history and memory converge: in their phantasmal form, the documentary historical photographs become transformed into a visual manifestation of memory. Item withdrawn by Mark Zulauf (zulauf@illinois.edu) on 2010-04-29T22:19:35Z Item was in collections: University of Illinois Theses & Dissertations (ID: 1) No. of bitstreams: 2 Bushnick_Melissa.doc: 2184704 bytes, checksum: 5e3d67146f06493d28e8bee972e0670e (MD5) Bushnick_Melissa.pdf: 519021 bytes, checksum: 00e1509250e97845883f5716977f2376 (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2010-05-19T18:41:23Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 3 Bushnick_Melissa.doc: 2184704 bytes, checksum: 5e3d67146f06493d28e8bee972e0670e (MD5) Bushnick_Melissa.pdf: 519021 bytes, checksum: 00e1509250e97845883f5716977f2376 (MD5) license.txt: 4066 bytes, checksum: 456f96d11d0033b515dab51d64189ba1 (MD5) http://hdl.handle.net/2142/16229 en Copyright 2010 Melissa J. Bushnick Attie, Shimon Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), and art Arts, Modern --20th century Photography, artistic Photography, philosophy History and memory Between memory and history: Shimon Attie's art of remembrance Art & Design 1526 Art History 0250 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Thesis M.A. MA:Art History -UIUC 10KS0250MA